Combination tackle box and chair



United States Patent n113,545,809

[72] I tor Ri hard w. Krenz 2,357,214 8/1944 McDole 297/ l 93X 1404 Grand Ave, San m c n 92109 2,812,227 1 1/1957 Hill 297/ 193x 2 1 AWL 775,270 3,128,137 4/1964 Dokter 312/235 [22] Filed NOV. 13, 1968 3,230,006 1/1966 SOkOlis 297/193 [45] Patented 1970 Primary Examiner-James T. McCall Attorney-Warren H. F. Schmieding [54] COMBINATION TACKLE BOX AND-CHAIR 10 Claims, 3 Drawing Figs.

297/192 ABSTRACT: A combination tackle box and chair having an A47! L-shaped cabinet forming a plurality of compartments, a [50] Field of Search 312/235; horizontal l g of th cabinet forming a seat and a vertical leg 192 of the cabinet forming a backrest. An additional compartment 56 R r d is hingedly connected with the cabinet which, when in coml e creme pacted relationship with the cabinet, cooperates with the UNITED STATES PATENTS cabinet to form a rectangularly shaped structure, and which is- 2,264,744 12/1941 Dunnam 312/235 movable to an upright position to form an upper backrest.

PIKTENTEU mac 8 I976 INVENTOR. RICHARD W. KRE/VZ III!!! TTOR/VE Y cqusiuauou acstaaox ANDl-THA BACKGROUND or THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention I A combination tackle box and chair in which an L-shaped cabinet forms a seatandalower backrest, and in which a compartment hinged to the, cabinet when it is in closed position with the cabinet, rests on the seat, and when in open position providesan upper backrest.

2. Description of the Prior ,Art

The prior art known to applicant comprises the following patents: U.S.fPa L'No. 2,264,744, to Dunnam, issued Dec. 2, 1941; U.S. Pat. No. 2,357,2l4j, to McDole, is issued Aug. 29, 1944; U.S. Pat. No. 3',I28,l37, to Dokter, issued Apr. 7, I964; U.S. Pat. No.,3,206,266, to Holloway et al. issued Sept. 14, 1965; U.S. Pat..No. 3,284,150, to Cline, issued Nov. 8, 1966;

and U.S. Pat. No. 3,230,006, to Sokolis, issued Jan. 18, 1966.

, Each'of the structures shown in the above-mentioned patents requires expensive-tooling to manufacture the same. Applicant has reduced the cost of manufacture by utilizing standard parts that can be purchased in hardware stores, and thus materially reduced the-cost of the ultimate structure.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The combination comprises a base forming at least one compartment. A cover is hinged to the walls forming the compartment. Another compartment is fixed to the base and is disposed above the cover and is hinged to the second mentioned compartment whereby it can be swung from above the cover to above the second mentioned compartment. When in BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIG. I is a perspective view of the combination tackle box and-chair showing the same in the position in which it is carried normally; I i F IG. 2 is a perspective view of the combination showing the same as being capable of use as a tackle box and chair; and

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line 3-3 of FIG. 1. DESCRIPTIONOF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring more in detail to the drawing, the combination tackle box and chair 20 includes an L-shaped cabinet 22. This cabinet includes a base '24 having a bottom wall 26, upright front, rear and side walls 28,30, 32 and 34, respectively. Those walls together with an intermediate upright wall 36 form a front compartment 38 and a rear compartment 40. A

top wall 42 is provided for the rear compartment 40. This latter wall also'extends forwardly of the partition wall 36 and partly over the rear of front compartment 38.

The rear wall includes a door 44 which is hinged at thetop by a hinge 46 and is held in latch position by latches fixed to the opposite side walls 32 and 34, the latch on wall 34 being shown at 48, the latch being shown on wall 32 by dotted lines in FIG. 3.

The L-shaped cabinet 22 also includes an upper rear compartment 50, the bottom wall of which is common with the upper wall 42 f rear base compartment 40. Compartment 50 includes anupright front 52, and the lower part of the rear wall'is formed by the upper part of the rear wall 30. The side walls 32 and 34 are L-shape d'and form the side walls, not only for base compartments 38 and 40, but also the side walls for compartment 50. The compartment 50 includes a top wall 54.

The rear wall of compartment 50 includes a door 56 which is hinged by a hinge 58 to wall 30. It is latched in position like door 44 by latches 60. I I

A fourth compartment 62 is hinged by hinge 64 to the upper front edge of compartment 50. In compacted position, as shown in FIG. 1 and 3, compartment 62 includes a top wall 66, depending front, rear and sidewalls 68, 70, 72, and 74, and a hinged bottom wall 76, hingedto the front wall 68 by a hinge 78 and latched in position by latch 80. Compartment 62 is latched in compacted position by a hook 82'which is pivoted by pin 84 to side wall 74 and hooked over pin 86 on side wall 34 of the base 24.

Compartment 62 after being unlatched and being hinged as shown, can be moved from the compacted position, shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, to the position shown in FIG. 2. In this second position, the wall 76 becomes the top wall of compartment 62, and being hinged, provides a removal cover for the then opentop compartment 62.

The base compartment 38 is provided with a pivotally mounted cover 88. This cover88 rests on the front wall 28 and side walls 32 and 34 of. the compartment 38. It is hinged to side wall 32 by hinge 90, and latched in closed position by a latch 92 on side wall 34. p

The top cover 88 forms a seat and carries a cushion 94 which, if desirable, may be secured to the cover. The front wall 52 of compartment 50 forms a backrest and has a cushion 96 secured thereto. As viewed in FIG. 3, the lower portion of the rear wall 70 of hinged compartment 62 has a cushion 98 secured thereto. A cushion 100 is hinged to cushion 98 by a flexible hinge 102. As shown in FIG. 2, when the combination is in chair position, cushion 100 is folded forwardly of cushion 98 and forms a cushion backrest.

The-bottom wall 26, the front wall 28, the partition wall 36, the rear wall 30, the top walls 42 and 54 and the front wall 52 of the L-shaped cabinet may be formed integrally and of plastic. The side walls 32 and 34 are secured to the opposite edges of the aforementioned walls. Also the top wall 66, the front wall 68 and the side walls 72 and 74 of compartment 62 may be formed integrally and of plastic.

A handle 104 is removably. carried by the top wall 66 of compartment 62'wher'eby, when removed, the wall 66 of corn partment 62 can rest directly on the top wall 54 of compartment 50.

Suitable runners'l06 are fixed to the bottom wall 26 of base My invention being made of plastic, I have provided a lightweight, rectangularly shaped, multiple compartment tackle box which can be converted readily to a chair having a backrest while still retaining'all compartments as such.

I claim:

l. A combination tackle box and chair comprising:

A. a base forming at least one compartment, said base including:

1. bottom wall means,

2. upright rear, front and opposite side walls,

3. a cover for the compartment forming a seat and resting on a plurality of the upright walls;

B. a hinge connecting the cover to one of the upright walls;

C. a second compartment disposed above the rear portion of the base, the bottom wall of said second compartment being common with the top wall of the base compartment, said second compartment including:

1. a stationary front wall carried by the base and lying rearwardly of the cover and providing a backrest,

2. upright rear and opposite side and a top wall, one of the latter walls being movable relative to the other walls of the second mentioned upright walls;

D. a hinge connecting said one wall of the second compartment to another of said walls of the second compartment;

E. a third compartment movable from a position in which it is disposed above the cover of the base to a position above the second mentioned compartment;

F. a hinge connecting the third mentioned compartment with the second mentioned compartment.

2. a combination as defined in claim 1, characterized to include:

G. a cushion carried by the cover.

3. A combination as defined in claim 1, characterized to include:

G. a cushion carried .by the front wall of the second mentioned compartment.

4. A combination as defined in claim 1, characterized-in that when the third mentioned compartment is in the second mentioned position, the front wall thereof forms a backrest, and further characterized to include:

G. a cushion held in position by the third mentioned compartment forward of the said front wall thereof.

5. A combination as defined in claim 1, characterized in that one of the walls of the third mentioned compartment is movable relativeto the others and further characterized-to include:

G. a hinge connecting the movablewall of the third mentioned compartment to another wall of the latter compartment. i

6. A combination as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the base forms two compartments, one extending rearwardly of the other. the bottom wall being common to both front and rear compartments and the side walls being common to include:

G. a hinge connecting the rear wall to one ofthe other walls of the rear compartment.

7. A combination as defined in claim 1, characterized to include: I

G. a latch for fastening the third compartment to the base."

8. A combination as defined in claimlli, characterized to' include: i

G. a handle on the third mentionedcompartrnent.

9. Acombination as defined in claim'7 characterized to include:

H. a handle on the third mentioned compartment.

10. A combination as defined in claim 9, characterize'dsin that the handle is removable. 

